Start with what matters
Share your current goal, project, question, decision, or concern.
Make, Share, and Move Forward With Care
These principles explain what members can expect, how to take part, and how CLIMB protects people and creative work.
One Clear Way Forward
See your next step
Focus on the action that fits what you need right now.
Go to the right place
Open the resource, service, community space, or kind of support that can help.
Share what happened
Save your progress, ask for help, or report a problem.
Continue from there
Return to Your CLIMB Guide when you are ready to continue.
How We Treat People and Creative Work
Care First
Protect people, privacy, consent, and safety.
Be Genuine
Keep your profile, reports, choices, and progress accurate.
Respect Every Maker Path
Making for joy, identity, income, or business are all valid.
Progress Over Perfection
Drafts, questions, restarts, pauses, and small steps count.
Credit Creative Work
Name sources, collaborators, teachers, permissions, and meaningful AI use.
Share What Happened
When useful, return with what happened so what comes next can fit what happened.
Take Part When It Helps
Community participation is optional. Use it when another maker’s experience, encouragement, answer, or question supports what you are doing now.
Share a work in progress or a completed result.
Ask one clear question.
Offer respectful feedback when it is invited.
Help another maker identify a useful next step.
Return after time away without apology.
Use and Share Work With Permission
Credit sources and contributors: name patterns, tutorials, teachers, collaborators, references, and permissions.
Describe meaningful AI use: say when generative AI created or materially changed the work.
Respect the creator’s choices: do not repost, reuse, train on, license, or sell work beyond the permission given.
Ask before another use: permission should be clear.
Protect the Space and Use the Right Help
No harassment or retaliation: threats, bullying, intimidation, hate speech, targeted shaming, or punishing someone for asking for help.
No stolen or deceptive work: impersonation, copied work presented as original, fake handmade claims, or misleading products and services.
No spam or pressure selling: repetitive promotion, irrelevant links, engagement manipulation, guilt, or false urgency.
No gatekeeping: do not make new, quiet, disabled, or returning makers feel unwelcome.
No unsafe or unsupported claims: do not present risky advice as certain or complete.
No privacy or consent violations: do not expose private information, private messages, or content beyond the permission given.
Report a Concern
Safety, privacy, conduct, impersonation, spam, misuse, or creative-rights concerns.
Urgent Image Removal
An intimate image or video shared without permission.
My Trust & Protection
Your agreements, choices, reports, and updates.
For immediate physical danger, contact local emergency services first.
